Afternoon Update: Class debates Israel’s future, one week at a time, amid campus protests

Protests hit more than 70 campuses; the latest arrests, and peaceful alternatives; Russian Fulbright scholars are in jeopardy at home; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. A SPACE FOR DIALOGUE [Debating Israel’s Future, One Week at a Time]( By Beth McMurtrie [STORY IMAGE]( A political-science course at the Johns Hopkins University wrestles with the questions tearing campuses apart. ADVERTISEMENT JUST UPDATED [Here’s Where Student Protesters Are Demanding Divestment From Israel]( By Sonel Cutler and Alecia Taylor [STORY IMAGE]( Our map shows new protests — more than 70 in all — have begun at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Western Michigan University, and more. CAMPUS UNREST I [Today’s Arrests From the Pro-Palestinian Protests on Campus]( Late Monday night, hours after Columbia University started suspending students involved in the campus’s encampment and 11 days after [more than 100 were arrested]( dozens of protesters barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall, the [Columbia Daily Spectator]( reported; the building has seen many past student protests, [The New York Times]( reported. More than 75 protesters were arrested on Monday at the University of Texas at Austin, but apparently many of them were not students, the [Austin American-Stateman]( reported. About 35 demonstrators were arrested at California State Polytechnic University’s Humboldt campus, as law-enforcement officers cleared two buildings that the protesters had occupied, [KCRA]( reported. Thirty protesters were detained at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and six of them were then arrested and released, [The Daily Tar Heel]( reported. Police officers in riot gear broke up an encampment at the University of Utah and arrested 17 students, [The Salt Lake Tribune]( reported. Portland State University closed the Oregon campus after protesters broke into the main library, [KGW]( reported. CAMPUS UNREST II [Some Colleges With Pro-Palestinian Protests Avoid Arresting Students]( Under a deal with protesters, Northwestern University will take steps to support Palestinian students and will allow protests to continue on the Illinois campus’s Deering Meadow through the end of spring-quarter classes, on June 1, as long as only one tent is used, [The Daily Northwestern]( reported. At Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, the president, Michael S. Roth, acknowledged that protesters were violating campus rules but said that, as long as they remained nonviolent, his staff would not attempt to remove them from the area, [The Middletown Press]( reported. A similar hands-off approach has allowed peaceful protests to continue on campuses of the University of California system, the [Los Angeles Times]( reported. GEOPOLITICAL CASUALTIES [Winning a Fulbright Was a High Honor for Russians. Now It Could Jeopardize Scholars Who Go Home.]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( Some fellowship recipients find themselves in limbo after Moscow levels accusations at academic exchange. RACE ON CAMPUS [Lived Experiences of the Anti-DEI Movement]( By Daarel Burnette II [STORY IMAGE]( Black women and LGBTQ people have disproportionately experienced the backlash on campuses, according to a Chronicle compilation. CAMPUS SPEECH [UT-Austin Shifts From Championing Free Speech to Policing Protesters’ Intentions]( The [arrest]( of dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas flagship since last week has left First Amendment advocates asking whose speech is really protected in Texas. The irony is that Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed legislation in 2019 to protect free speech, and last fall UT hailed its broad view of such rights at Free Speech Week. (The Texas Tribune, The Chronicle) CAMPUS CUTS [Facing $9-Million Deficit, Alverno College Plans to Cut Jobs and Academic Programs]( The 137-year-old institution in Wisconsin said on Monday that the specifics of the plan would be disclosed within 60 days, and that faculty and staff posts were on the chopping block. Alverno’s enrollment has shrunk by a third, to about 1,300, over the last decade, and it has run multimillion-dollar deficits in four of the last five years. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) UPCOMING PROGRAM [The Chronicle's Strategic-Leadership Program for Department Chairs | June 2024] [Join us in June]( for a professional development program tailored to the needs of department chairs. 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